Our difficulty with your beauty please do melt, At least a jug of wine we may drink, Before they...

Whenever truth measures love, as heart soul do

Love manifests friendship and friendship determines love

In Trance from *Aftab's Bar*

In the Path of Love: mystical romantic
poetry

Happy New
Year 2012

"Like every new day for us are New YearsAftab celebrates beautiful charms it offersLife
may go on, but love remember us todayNew Years be around, us absent as mataphors." Aftab Kazi December 31,
2011

*MAGIAN'S DRINK*"If drunk by Magian's mystical drink, so I am,Call me drunkard, lover whatsoever,
so I am,Stop hatred in the garb of esoteric subnationalisms,A Khayyam follower social scientist Aftab I am."

(Magi + Pro-Zoroastarian mythical belief later adapted
by other religions)

*MEDITATION WITH KHAYYAM*

"Khayyam, I wish you were here creating
with me,New chapters shy beginnings and romance files,Inscribed with tears and forever beautiful smiles,Annals
of love freedom and hypocrite love crimes."

(All quatrains, poems and other material on
this site are copyrighted with the Copyright Office, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; not allowed for any purpose in any
form other than the personal use by poetry lovers and admireres of Omar Khayyam.)

Dear visitors,Thank you for visiting My
Little World. Presented here are some mystical-romantic quatrains and poems of mine inspired by the poetry
of my role model Hakim (Dr.) Omar Khayyam (1048-1131 C.E.) celebrated sophist scientist and poet-scholar of the then political-cum-
cultural Central and Southwest Eurasia. Khayyam's poetry, philosophy, unambitious and unpretencious personal character and
his worldview has influenced my life considerably. With kind regards, Aftab

(NOTE: The advice of Ms. Silke Schilder [Berlin]
and Dr. Gerd Strüblert [Leipzig] about rivers in Germany is gratefully appreciated. Dr. Strüblert very kindly explained
the importance of Weise Elster, great scenic river, which gracefully flows by the Clara Zetkin Park in
lovely and schön (beautiful) Leipzig. I feel honored to have spent a few precious years at the University of Leipzig.
This time-period was instrumental in the awaking of the mystical faculty of my mind. AK)

*LISTEN TO HEART*"Your beautiful face
rosy lips and this red ruby wine, You and Aftab human goblets will be dust with passing time, Listen to Heart don't
confuse Soul, why argue by Mind?Love-longing in my verses, few more moons remain to shine."

*BEST KISSES*"Ignore fickleness
of the mankind civilization or culture,Luckily we spend little time in enigmatic infinite sphere,Aftab knows to stop
time momentarily playing as best kisser,Endearing infidel whatever, best kisses expect no future."

*HUMAN RIGHTS*
"When will you learn to heal hearts with a smile?
Without love, human rights businesses are futile!
Aftab expects nothing from earth, only gives and loves,
Beauty without grace causes heart-quakes senile."

*HEART'S DESIRE*"Come sweetheart
come more lifetimes of love to share,Make love religiously satisficing to heart's desire,Life's party borrowed moments,
happiness a Divine secret,Aftab must be drunk with love to reenter old dusty sphere."

*HOW MANY TIMES?*"How many times
do you break loving hearts every year?How many times do you fall in new love every year?Aftab is still picking heart
pieces reconstructing himself,Hoping Sweetheart's lovely smiles eternally every year."

*SEASONS OF HEART*"Spring has
arrived, winter continues not gone,Pages of life turned, desired dawn must yet arrive,O Heart do not despair,
if sweetheart changed her mind,Love seasons bring anew, roses thorns in Aftab's sphere."

"O
beautiful Artist can you reflect the painstakingness of heart in Art? Have you crafted ever the canvass of pleasant yet
restless heart? Depicted love-longing in the language of helpless nostalgic heart? Has any enflamed your heart, if
not find from mystical Aftab."

*BIRTHDAY*"It may look late, but
memories never age,Love and life images constantly may change,Aftab knows, Sweetheart neither changes nor will age,Beholders
perceive vintage through Beloved's own eyes."

*PEACE: A LOVERS' DREAM*"Peace
of mind heart or world like a seasonal idealist flu, Romantic social or political great games in forms continue, Aftab
knew, You cannot fulfill love demands romance dreams, Although heart dearly desired, it longed to be loved by You."

*POLITICIZED SUFI-SUBNATIONALISMS*"Wayfarer,
walk away from all creeds called religions,Garbed as non-violence even Sufism smells extremisms,Khayyam, if Aftab
is not a Sufi by their hypocrite politicized way,Violence follows in variety, fate of rinds(1) and regions."

(REF. 1. Rind= A
libertine mystic/an independent thinker)

*LIFE AND DEATH*"Searching all around Soul returned with some
answers,Nothing lays in-between the existence non-existence matters,Advanced souls know Aftab existence within non-existence,Death
a form of sleep, non-existence is immortal silence."

*POLITICS* "If you've become a popular politician, so what? Even an insecure restless billionaire,
so what? Money and power never help anyone escape Death! Accomplishments always tell Aftab, so what?"

AMERICA'S NOBEL PRIZE

"Friends Felicitate, foes
forget the Honor for America

Congratulations
Obama glorious President of America

Nobel prize will noble, humble critics' confused hearts

Aftab in sky celebrates anew, rejunevate America."

Aftab=Sun

FOR
PRESIDENT OBAMA

“Respect the Honorable role fate have you assigned

Ignore
misperceptions lobbying groups have designed

Make history; not what chroniclers may make of you

Aftab’s
Bar wisdom might strike versatile enlightened.”

NEW BEGINNINGS

“Whence the charm that once sparked romantic hearts?

Arrogance never wins before dignified loving hearts

Free souls celebrate confident in Aftab’s little universe

Love path safer again; Congratulations loving hearts”.

OBJECTIVITY

"Wasn't easy to write
dissertations explain phenomenons

Scholarship often fears hypocrite's subjective notions

Professor told Aftab objectivity makes and shakes careers

Goblet clarified, intellect can also resemble
spoiled onions."

BIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Aftab is a
political scientist, currently a senior fellow of the Johns Hopkins University's Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
& Silk Road Studies Program and the Institute of Security and Development Policy Stockholm Joint Center at the Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. He is also a Senior Associate of the Cornell
Caspian Consulting (Sweden), and a fellow of the Institute of Political Science, University of Leipzig (Germany) completing
his advanced study dissertation. Recently, he served for a year as Higher Education Commission Foreign Professor at the
Faculty of Contemporary Studies, National Defense University of Pakistan and Department of International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam
University in Islamabad. He also spent approximately two years as professor of International & Comparative
Politics at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek (Kyrgyz Republic). Formerly, he served as a civil
service officer in the United States Department of Education. In December 2004 and 2007, Aftab was invited among the independent
international observers by the Republic of Uzbekistan to monitor the Parliamentary and Presidential Elections respectively.
While in the U.S. government, Aftab served simultaneously as a visiting faculty in various national and international
universities and for scholarly activities was honored as Unsung*Hero by the President's Council on Management Improvement
and Voluntary Service.. His national and international appointments (Professor, research scientist, fellow, senior fellow,
associate, senior lecturer, lecturer etc.) include the University of Pittsburgh, University of Virginia, Howard University,
Bukhara State University (Uzbekistan), University of Maiduguri (Nigeria), University of Sindh (Pakistan) and the Institute
of Strategic Studies, Islamabad. At the University of Sindh, he also served as chief executive assistant to Vice Chanecellor
on the post of Pro-Vice Chancellor, besides roles such as acting director Pakistan Studies Center; acting dean, Faculty
of Education; coordinator, Non-formal Education Program, and as professor of International Relations/Studies. He is the founder
and first Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Asian and African Affairs (1988-94) renamed as Journal of Third World Spectrum
since 1995. Aftab holds the Doctor of Philosophy degree in International and Peace Studies from the
University of Pittsburgh with an interdisciplinary specialization in comparative and international history and politics; conflict,
peace and security studies; international development education and cultural diplomacy. His research mainly focused on ethnicity
and nationalism (esp. Indus basin/Pakistan and Central Asia); education, foreign and security policies in and between the
United States, Pakistan, Central and Southwest Asia. Other research contributions include areas related to geopolinomics,
transit-route politics, civil-military relations, nation and state-building, and political behavior and political development
(esp. political socialization and stratification). Prior to completing doctorate, Aftab studied economics and international
relations at the University of Sindh (Pakistan). He has conceptualized the history of Pakistan as an Indus River Basin State,
focusing upon the geopolitical relationships between Central and Southwest Asia. Also, he has contributed to the study of
politics and education, non-formal and distance education, development administration and Federal grants management in United
States.

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PUBLICATIONS: Aftab has authored two books, i.e. Ethnicity and Education in Nation-building: Case of Pakistan and The
Politics of Civil-Military Relations in Pakistan, beside several articles in his various fields of specialization.
Currently, he is nearing completion of a forthcoming book End of Geopolitics and the Beginnings
of Geopolinomics: United States in Central and Southwest Asia". Also, he is simultaneously
working on another book Geopolitical History of Central and South Asia focusing
upon the intercultural and international relationships between Central and South Asia from an evolutionarly to the present
day power politics, a passion he developed during his early twenty's as a graduate student, while studying for his
Master of Arts degree in International Relations/History at the University of Sindh. While at the American University
of Cental Asia, he designed and developed a course Geopolitical History of Central and South Asia
, based upon his personal lifetime study. experience and nuances, the course is copyrighted with he office of copyrights,
Library of Congress, Washinton, DC, USA.

HONORS: In 1992, Aftab was honored asUnsung Hero*by the President's Council
on Management Improvement and Public Employees Roundtable for distinguished public service and voluntary scholarly activities,
while serving the United States Department of Education. His poetry has been honored twice by the International Society of
Poets as an International Poet of Merit during the ISP conventions on August 25, 2002 in Washington,
DC and on February 28, 2003 in Orlando, Florida. His biography is listed in various volumes of Marquis Who's Who editions.
The 2004 edition of The International Who's Who in Poetrypublished by the International Library of Poets (USA) presented Aftab's poetic work among
the selcted few (only four) Featured Poets. Also honored twice in 2005 and 2007 respectively with
an award Outstanding Achievement in Poetryby the International Society
of Poets. In August 2008, He received Editor's choice Award The Best Poems and Poets 2007
by the International Library of Poetry